AGM Information • May 17, 2023
AGM Information
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OF
At the annual general meeting of the Company held on Wednesday 17 May 2023 (the "Meeting"), the following resolutions were duly passed by the requisite majority of the members of the Company in accordance with the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 and the Company's Articles of Association:
To receive and approve the Directors' Compensation Policy contained within the Company's Annual Report and Accounts'for the financial year ended 31 December 2022.
In accordance with Article 6 of the Company's Articles of Association, to authorise the Board to allot relevant securities (as defined in the Company's Articles of Association):
To authorise the Company generally and unconditionally:
Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the ordinary share is contracted to be purchased; and (b) an amount equal to the higher of the price of the last independent trade of an ordinary share and the highest current independent bid for an ordinary share on the trading venue where the purchase is carried out (exclusive of expenses (if any) payable by the Company); and
In accordance with Article 8 of the Company's Articles of Association that if resolution 18 is passed, the Board be authorised to allot equity securities (as defined in the Company's Articles of Association) wholly for cash as if Article 7 of the Company's Articles of Association did not apply to any such allotment:
In accordance with Article 8 of the Company's Articles of Association that if resolution 18 is passed and in addition to any power granted under resolution 20, the Board be authorised to allot equity securities (as defined in the Company's Articles of Association) wholly for cash, as if Article 7 of the Company's Articles of Association did not apply to any such allotment, in each case such authority to be:
(a) up to an aggregate nominal amount not exceeding £5,354,687; and
(b) used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the authority is to be used within 12 months after the original transaction) a transaction which the Board determines to be an acquisition or specified capital investment of a kind contemplated by the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice, such authority to expire on the date of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 2024 or 17 August 2024, whichever is earlier but, in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted after the authority expires and the Board may allot equity securities under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.
Balbir Kelly-Bisla Company Secretary, WPP plc
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